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Otto Dix. German Painter and Printmaker. Born: December 2, 1891 - Untermhaus, Germany. Died: July 25, 1969 - Singen, Germany. Movements and Styles: New Objectivity. , Magic Realism. , Photomontage. , Degenerate Art. "Art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time.
Otto DixArtworks. View all 129 artworks. Otto Dix lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of German New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Otto Dix was a German painter and engraver who mixed compassion and Expressionist despair to create works harshly critical of society. He was associated and exhibited with the Neue Sachlichkeit group of painters. Son of a railway worker, Dix was apprenticed to a decorative artist and received.
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈʔɔtoː ˈdɪks]; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war.
Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker best known for his unforgiving depiction of Weimar Society and the Great War from whence it was forged. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
German artist Otto Dix was a committed painter of portraits. At a time when photography had diminished portraiture’s importance and the genre was seen as a deeply unfashionable pursuit for so-called serious artists, he was making a living – and cementing his reputation – out of exactly that.
Otto Dix. German, 1891–1969. Starr Figura, German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Painter, printmaker, watercolorist. Known especially for his caustic portraits of postwar German society.
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